Digital TV update

Some of you might remember this post from almost a year ago complaining about digital tv. I thought it would be appropriate to give a little update on that front.

It seems that, when it comes to digital tv antennae, you really do get what you pay for. At the time of the first post, I bought the cheapest, $10 antenna @ Wal-mart. It looked to be standard bunny ears with a knob to fine tune. Even in the summer on days w/o wind we would still get pixelation and a crappy digital signal. We constantly had to adjust the knob and recently, after the kids started bending and breaking the ears, to get the best reception you would lose one channel entirely but to get that one channel, the reception on the other channels would be horrendous. We finally decided to get a new antennae since the kids were destroying it. At Wal-mart we saw an antenna that had no bunny ear, just a flat disk that you rotate to fine tune it. then we saw a flat rectangle that said it had 360degree reception so no fine tuning necessary. BINGO! both of these were more expensive but we went with the rectangle. We plug it in and rescan and we gain 3 more channels we didn't have (granted they are the SD counterpart to the HD channels we already got, but still... its the principle of the matter) And the best part is...there has been little to none pixelating/bad recption on any channel! SCORE! so when it comes to DTV antennae, you definately get what you pay for.